THE NEW COLLECTION
OF BOOKS ON DANCE
Now available through Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier, Vermont
The Black Dancing Body: A Geography From Coon to Cool
by Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Body Against Body: the dance and other collaborations of
Bill T. Jones & Arnie Zane
Edited by Elizabeth Zimmer and Susan Quasha
Bodystories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy
by Andrea Olsen
in collaboration with Caryn McHose
Choreographing Difference: The Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance
by Ann Cooper Albright
Dance as a Theatre Art: Source Readings in Dance History From 1581 to the Present
​Second Edition
Edited by Selma Jeanne Cohen
With a new section edited by Katy Matheson
Dance from the Campus to the Real World (and Back Again)
Edited by Suzanne Callahan
With Guest Writers
Dance: Rituals of Experience
By Jamake Highwater
Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage
by Sally Banes
Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer
by Liz Lerman
The Intimate Act of Choreography
by Lynne Anne Blom and L. Tarin Chaplin
Labanotation: The System of Analyzing and Recording Movement
Third Edition
by Ann Hutchinson
The Landscape of the Now: A Topography of Movement Improvisation
by Kent De Spain
Mark Morris
by Joan Acocella
The Moment of Movement: Dance Improvisation
by Lynne Anne Blom and L. Tarin Chaplin
Signed copy
Pina Bausch: The Biography
by Marion Meyer
Translated by Penny Black
Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance
by Sally Banes
The Thinking Body
by Mabel E. Todd
Time and the Dancing Image
by Deborah Jowitt
Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism
by Sally Banes
Sending gratitude to the generous donors for giving books from their private collections and, in some cases, for the purchase of books purposely for this collection to:
Hannah Dennison
Dr. Kathleen Kesson
Alana & Jim Phinney
Martha Ming Whitfield
BOOK DREAMS
As more notable books come across my desk, I am noting them below. Let us dare to see and BE beyond the cultural notion that dance history, theory, and philosophy are only for academia. May we respect readers and make no assumptions, and most importantly make sure there are truth-telling, relevant, and inclusive materials available. The books below are either already on deck or under consideration:
COMING SOON
SPECIAL THANKS
Penny Campbell, Senior Lecturer Emerita of Dance at Middlebury College, and Pamela Vail, Associate Professor of Dance at Franklin & Marshall College, were my initial touch points for engaging with relevant, truthful resources on dance history. The on-going discourse I had with them was invaluable to me, most notably in bringing my awareness to the ever-present Euro/US dance canon that still pervades dance writings. I am so grateful to them for being enthusiastic about my project and sharing their knowledge with me as dance scholars concerned with human values and the political.